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Cisco MGX 8800/8900 Series Hardware Installation Guide
Releases 2 - 5.2, Part Number OL-4545-01, Rev. H0, May 2006
Chapter 1 Product Overviews
Cisco MGX 8950 Switch
Figure 1-19 RCON-1TO3-8850 RCON Connector
To install or remove RCONs, see Installing or Removing Redundancy Connectors, page 6-22.
Cisco MGX 8950 Switch
The MGX 8950 multiservice core switch was introduced in May 2002 on MGX Release 2.1.76.
MGX 8950 Switch Overview
The MGX 8950 multiservice switch is a high-capacity ATM backbone switch that provides the following
features:
• Scalability up to 180-Gbps fully redundant nonblocking throughput within a single chassis
• Industry-leading broadband density
• Aggregation of OC-3C/STM-1, OC-12Cc/STM-4, and OC-48c/STM-16 trunks
• Highest network availability in the industry
• Single-platform support for permanent virtual circuits/paths (PVCs/PVPs), soft permanent virtual
circuits/paths (SPVCs/SPVPs), switched virtual circuits/paths (SVCs/SVPs), label virtual circuits
(LVCs), PNNI, and MPLS
The MGX 8950 supports the following services:
• High-density broadband ATM
• Scaling MPLS services
• Convergence of voice and data networks
The MGX 8950 switch:
• Provides up to 240 Gbps of switching capacity through the backplane, using four dedicated switch
fabric modules (XM60s), each containing 60 Gbps of cross-bar switching fabric
• Can use either an AC or a DC power source
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